hotfoot
Americannoun
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hotfoots
plural
verb (used without object)
adverb
adverb
verb
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Etymology
Origin of hotfoot
Example Sentences
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They don’t all hotfoot it straight to the police station.
From Slate ● May 20, 2023
Washington has been getting poked in the eye, given the hotfoot, had bubble gum put on its hat or had its pants pulled down in public since 1901 by the “national pastime.”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 11, 2019
I decided to take time off work the very next day and hotfoot it to Tel Aviv, to get ahead of any competitors.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 7, 2019
And so they hotfoot it to Paris, leaving their new spouses behind in bewildered ignorance, determined to live sensibly together.
From New York Times ● Nov. 18, 2011
They still can't see that it’s time to cut bait and hotfoot it out of town.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
A University of Chicago dropout, she hotfoots it to New York on the strength of a Greyhound hookup.
From New York Times ● Jun. 11, 2021
As this year's series of Strictly Come Dancing hotfoots its way towards crowning its winner, reigning champ Joe McFadden professes to not feeling too glum about giving up the glitterball.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2018
The backseat passenger hotfoots it in the other direction, and the front passenger slides cleanly across the seat, perhaps unseen by Atkinson.
From Time Magazine Archive
When the boss of a job wants help, he does not go to Boise; Morrison or one of his lieutenants hotfoots it out to the job.
From Time Magazine Archive
And get this: hotfoot becomes hotfoots, and still life becomes still lifes.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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